{"id":3058,"date":"2013-01-18T21:39:28","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T05:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=3058"},"modified":"2013-01-18T21:39:28","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T05:39:28","slug":"a-first-glimpse-of-the-microscopic-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=3058","title":{"rendered":"A first glimpse of the microscopic universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world just expanded by a factor of ten.  At least.<\/p>\n<p>Of course this is true in a literal sense, given the arrival of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.celestron.com\/science_education\/lcd-deluxe-digital-microscope.html\">Celestron 44345 microscope<\/a>.  I can now see down to scales previously invisible to my eye, magnifying at 40x, 100x, 200x, 1600x!  But even more meaningful is the figurative way in which things have expanded.  I have access to a rich, teeming layer of reality that previously existed only in a hypothetical fashion.  And because this is a microscope with a digital camera embedded in it, I can also store and share what I see.<\/p>\n<p>I first took a look at the seven prepared slides that came with the microscope.   Here are some examples of the fantastic sights I saw (click to zoom):<\/p>\n<p><center>Pine:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pine-sml.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pine-sml-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"pine-sml\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3074\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pine-sml-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pine-sml-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pine-sml.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center>Epithelium:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/epithelium-sml.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/epithelium-sml-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"epithelium-sml\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3075\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/epithelium-sml-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/epithelium-sml-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/epithelium-sml.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center>&#8220;Apple&#8221; (seed? cell? blossom? wha?):<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/apple-sml.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/apple-sml-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"apple-sml\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3076\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/apple-sml-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/apple-sml-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/apple-sml.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve now placed an order for a set of blanks so that I can prepare my own slides to study anything I encounter &#8212; and even just within the confines of my house there is a veritable zoo of things to study.  High on my list is sampling from the cornucopia of interesting structures that grow in my compost bin.  I can&#8217;t wait to share what I discover!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world just expanded by a factor of ten. At least. Of course this is true in a literal sense, given the arrival of my Celestron 44345 microscope. I can now see down to scales previously invisible to my eye, magnifying at 40x, 100x, 200x, 1600x! But even more meaningful is the figurative way in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3058"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3083,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions\/3083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}